Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Beware of the duck
I liked today’s comic on Pearls before Swine so much, I decided to post it here:
Why FOSS won’t win against MS
Now here’s a real insightful comment on one of the things that’s wrong with FOSS (Free Open Source Software).
World Press Photo 1957
World Press Photo 1957: Douglas Martin, USA, The Associated Press. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 4 September 1957. Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students to enter the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School. Probably one of the most courageous persons in the world.
Nethack farming bot
Benjamin Schieder wrote a bot that automates the process of farming in Nethack: Or, to be even more precise, it does the job of pudding farming for you. It even feeds itself when hungry. It sacrifices pudding corpses and prays to your god. It removes scrolls of scare monster from the altar. It stops on […]
Failures count more than Successes
Failures count more than Successes. A nice article on the understated importance of correctly handling software failures.
The Joys Of Smoking
The Joys Of Smoking.
IRC Idle RPG
I have joined in the online IRC Idle RPG game on #nethack-idlerpg (Freenode), in seek of fame, fortune, high levels and extraordinary ammounts of idle time. I’m kind of chatty, so this might become a problem. The goal of the game? To be idle. Yes, that’s right, idle. Do not speak a word. Do not […]
Perry Bible Fellowship
Cool online strip
DVORAK zealots thwarted
Well, this study suggests that there is no proof for the fact that DVORAK is actually a better/faster keyboard layout. But the evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak is flawed and incomplete. First, the claims for the superiority of the Dvorak keyboard are suspect. The most dramatic claims are traceable to Dvorak […]
Tits!
Check out these nice tits: www.nice-tits.org. (Suitable for work, trust me. Otherwise I wouldn’t post it) Thanks for the link, Flunk!
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